Inclusion

Employee wins £5k after colleagues' homophobic remarks

A former removal firm worker has won £5,500 at tribunal after his supervisor and another colleague directed homophobic remarks at him.

How to enlist DEI champions

Rightly or wrongly, people from minority groups are often approached or volunteered to head up workplace inclusion initiatives. How else can leaders find workplace inclusion ambassadors? Toby Mildon...

Financial boost for working carers

Working carers are now able to work for longer without missing out on key benefits. How HR can further support carers in their places of work?

New episode: HR Most Influential Podcast 4.4: Inclusion is the answer to everything

Inclusion – and its potential to help organisations address strategic HR issues like productivity, retention and engagement – is the focus of the latest HR Most Influential Podcast episode, which went...

The HR Most Influential Podcast 4.4: Inclusion is the answer to everything

Aggie Yemurai Mutuma joins the podcast to discuss why inclusion has the potential to address strategic HR issues like productivity, retention and even the bottom line.

Podcast

Maternity leave discrimination case settled for £215k

A former Citibank employee has reportedly accepted £215,000 to settle her discrimination claim, after being overlooked for promotion while on maternity leave.

How can HR better support deaf employees?

After a Labour MP was forced to leave a committee session when her hearing aids ran flat, we asked: how can employers better support staff who have hearing loss, or are deaf?

Google agrees to pay $28m in alleged discrimination case

Google agreed on Tuesday (18 March) to pay $28 million (£21.5 million) to settle a lawsuit alleging the company gave white and Asian employees better pay and career opportunities than employees of...

Health and Wellbeing at Work 2025: Day one round-up

The Health and Wellbeing at Work conference and exhibition returned to Birmingham’s NEC yesterday (11 March) for its 19th year. The HR magazine team is chairing the event's Best Place to Work seminar...

How can HR make internships more accessible?

Creating effective, accessible and inclusive internships can be a knotty challenge. Jonathan Ashong-Lamptey offers advice for employers wanting to attract interns from a diverse range of backgrounds.

Features

Back in style: The rise and rise of employee-led resource groups

Employee-led resource groups are back in vogue. How can inclusion-focused HR leaders use this new popularity to their advantage? Peter Crush reports.

Library employee wins £7,500 for reasonable adjustments fail

A British Library employee has won £7,500 in an employment tribunal after she claimed her workplace was too noisy.